Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort, Inc. or more commonly known as "T.R.E.E. Inc.", is a 36-year-old grassroots nonprofit environmental organization based out of the Tampa Bay Area. It was instrumental in bringing the concept of volunteers raising and then planting trees along the interstates, roadways and in parks of the greater Tampa Bay Area to beautify and preserve the environment. To date, T.R.E.E. Inc. has planted over 28,050 trees.

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The organization started out as a small group of friends that wanted to see more trees being planted in the Tampa Bay Area. These friends took that purpose, moved forward on their own time and expense, and on February 8, 1983, T.R.E.E. Inc. was incorporated under Florida law.

T.R.E.E. Inc.'s modus operandi throughout most of its existence had been to purchase bare root tree seedlings, container grow them in 1-gallon containers for one growing season, step them up into 3-gallon containers for a second growing season and donate or out-plant them prior to their third growing season.

In January 1988, William Moriaty stepped down as President so that he could relocate to Gainesville, Florida with his wife Karen Cashon as she would be attending the University of Florida later that year. As a result, an almost entirely new slate of Directors served from 1988 to 1989. Vice President Bob Scheible was the only Founding member to serve during this two-year period in the same capacity that he did at the organization's creation.

Due to a major push by members living in Pinellas County, Florida, the organization's name was changed through Florida law on July 24, 1991 from its original title of Tampa Reforestation and Environmental Effort, Inc. to Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort, Inc.

On August 9, 1991, T.R.E.E. Inc. was awarded 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status from the United States Internal Revenue Service as an Educational organization.

Beginning in 2005, T.R.E.E. Inc. secured its first major sponsor, Esurance. Esurance is an on-line insurance provider based out of San Francisco, California. Beginning with the esurance St. Pete Beach Tree-Athalon planting on September 24, 2005, T.R.E.E. Inc. has had an additional ten volunteer tree plantings sponsored by Esurance.

The Esurance plantings were a radical departure from T.R.E.E. Inc.'s previous plantings which were conducted almost solely through the use of 3-gallon material grown at its own nursery. This gave T.R.E.E. Inc. the unprecedented opportunity to plant large sized 30-gallon trees, affording it the opportunity to finally conduct plantings with a much higher visual impact. In addition, the Esurance projects led to a gradual phasing out of T.R.E.E. Inc. having to depend so heavily upon its own nursery to obtain trees.

In addition to the Esurance plantings, T.R.E.E. Inc. began introducing programs such as the Tulip Poplar Repopulation Program, Orange and Seminole Counties, Florida where East Central Florida Eco-Type Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) grown from seed of trees native to that area have been planted since that time in Orlando, Winter Park, Altamonte Springs, Sanford, and Casselberry, Florida.

In December 2008, T.R.E.E. Inc. received a major contribution from The Home Depot Foundation and was also instrumental in assisting the National Football League's Environmental Program and Florida Division of Forestry with a Super Bowl Trail of Trees planting initiative in April 2009.

In August 2017 created a 3 page checklist of the "Trees and Palms of the Botanical Treasure Gardens of the Plant City Commons Community Garden (Occupying the location formerly known as the Teaching Garden of the University of Florida), Plant City Campus, Hillsborough Community College, 2001 E. Cherry Street, Plant City, Florida".

On January 19, 2019, T.R.E.E. Inc. continued its tradition of giving away free tree seedlings for the City of Temple Terrace's Florida Arbor Day Celebration.

The Vision 2020 Program was adopted on January 3, 2010 to be used as a guiding force in T.R.E.E. Inc.'s development and operations over the next ten years.

In addition to placing emphasis on continuing its Flowering Tree, Tulip Poplar, Longleaf Pine and South Florida Slash Pine reforestation initiatives, T.R.E.E. Inc. converted all paper records into electronic form and registered all corporate records with the United States Copyright Office of the Library of Congress until 2016. The first such electronic record to be forwarded to the United States Copyright Office was on August 15, 2010 featuring the organization's 1983 Annual Yearbook. Initially expected to take until the end of February 2011 to complete, all electronic registration of records dating from 1983 to 2010 were completed on February 11, 2011.

On July 14, 2012, the organization's 400th planting project occurred at the University of Florida Teaching Garden located at the Plant City, Florida campus of Hillsborough Community College. A 5-gallon Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) was planted by Founding Member William Moriaty. The University relinquished maintenance of the Garden in July 2015.

On November 3, 2016 TREE Inc. planted its 200th variety of tree with the planting of a 3-gallon Ceiba speciosa (Silk Floss Tree) at the Botanical Treasure Garden, formerly known as the University of Florida's Teaching Garden, located at the Plant City campus of Hillsborough Community College.

Beautify and reforest the Tampa Bay area through the planting of native trees.

Further public awareness about the merits of reforesting public lands.

Further public awareness about the planting and preserving of native trees and underutilized trees of special interest.

Work in conjunction with, and in support of, other organizations similar purpose.

Be a clearinghouse of scientific and educational information to the public on the merits of tree species selection for use in the Tampa Bay area in accordance with the intent of its I.R.S. tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status.

Furnished the original design, and subsequent installation on November 23, 1996, of what would become the Richard T. Bowers Historic Tree Grove at the Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa).

With the permission of the Florida Department of Transportation, made history by planting over 4,600 native trees in ten (10) TREE DAY on I-75 projects along Interstate 75 in Hillsborough County, Florida from 1986 to 1996.

Donated and planted approximately 28,050 trees, utilizing an estimated 2,800 volunteers since T.R.E.E. Inc.'s creation on February 8, 1983.

Worked in conjunction with the City of St. Petersburg, Florida and Keep Pinellas Beautiful to reforest and beautify Clam Bayou Nature Preserve, with the First Phase of this effort starting on May 5, 2018 and a Second Phase having been conducted on October 27, 2018.